Together America's and Britain's Conservatives have
helped re-make much of the world in the image of
poverty and terror.

Our Conservative types brought you:
The rule of law (apart from international law that
is, we mean erm.. we replace it with the rule of
'our law', let's just call it GOD'S LAW)
Rights to your property (we can, and do, take yours)
Respect for human rights (no really, please don't
laugh, I am being serious)

These formative ideas have transformed the prospects
of nations that lived in relative peace and provided
the darkness of fear and despair. We despair for
them; the "riches" that they could have had.

And, well, we despair for our profits.

This relationship needs to be constantly renewed
and nurtured for Conservatives (but don't worry, we'll make sure
you're bombed until you understand our side of the
argument:)

This is what The Atlantic Bridge was conceived to
do.

We have created a network of like-minded (narrow-minded)
people in politics, business, academia and journalism
giving only the US accepted line who come together
to share only our views and our types' experiences.

We will draw on the experience and expertise of
our narrow-minded member-base in order to promote an agenda that
will strengthen the Special Relationship for Conservatives
(we include everybody who rightly sees non-Westerners
as terrorists (you can't say we're not fair can
you?)) and champion our brand of 'freedom' in a
rapidly changing world.

An
often-cited early implementation of neoliberal
policies followed in the Chilean president
Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état. Pinochet's
coup took place in the context of an economic
crisis under the democratically elected government
of Socialist Salvador Allende. After Allende
won, Richard Nixon told CIA director Richard
Helms it would be necessary to "make
the [Chilean] economy scream". After
Pinochet seized power, the so-called Chicago Boys,
members of the Pontifical Catholic University
of Chile who had strong ties to Chicago School
economists, began closely advising him in the
implementation of a number of neoliberal reforms.

Thatcher's Britain

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's Conservative Prime
Minister between 1979 and 1990. Thatcher was elected
to the Prime Minister's office while the British
economy stagnated. She, along with fellow Conservative
Keith Joseph, sought to resolve these problems
through the dismantling of Britain's elaborate
government economic controls, taking a tough stance
against Britain's unions following the so-called
Winter of Discontent of 19781979, and by
the prioritization of inflation control.

Reagan's America

The Administration of Ronald Reagan governed from
1981 to 1989, and made a range of decisions that
served to liberalize the American economy. In
1981, he fired over 11,345 striking air traffic
control workers and banned them from future civil
service, resulting in the de-certification of
the Air Traffic Controllers union later that year.
These firings heralded a period of long decline
for American unions, which served as a strong
political counterweight to business and other
interests that traditionally support liberalization.
He is also credited with policies that cut taxes
for the wealthy (which was said to help the economy
via trickle-down effects). He is also often credited
with having deregulated much of the American economy,
though the 'deregulation' movement preceded his
Administration, and continued after it.

These policies are often described as Reaganomics,
and are often associated with supply-side economics
(the notion that policies should appeal to producers,
in order to lower prices, and therefore make products
more affordable, rather than consumers, in order
to cultivate economic prosperity).

The Reagan administration presided over the greatest
rise in economic inequality in twentieth century
American history. He oversaw an enormous increase
in US Debt, but his supporters credit him with
overseeing a recovery from the Stagflation crisis
of the 1970s and America's victory in the Cold
War."

Many
of the new rules, that do not require Congressional
review in the last days and weeks of the Bush
administration, are seen as benefitting the big
business interests that backed Bush throughout
his presidency.

The
Guardian reports that these "midnight regulations"
will:


Make it easier for coal companies to dump waste
from strip-mining into valleys and streams.
 Ease the building of coal-fired power stations
nearer to national parks.
 Allow people to carry loaded and concealed
weapons in national parks.
 Open up millions of acres to mining for
oil shale.
 Allow healthcare workers to opt out of
giving treatment for religious or moral reasons,
thus weakening abortion rights.
 Hurt road safety by allowing truck drivers
to stay at the wheel for 11 consecutive hours.

Good
luck Mr Obama.. :|

[update]This
situation is of no surprise though given the interests
involved. Smells the same as any Conservative
approach.

Why
not hear about the Carlyle
Group? Group members include George Bush (Sr.),
James Baker III and ex British Conservative Prime
Minister John Major

They,
literally, make a killing. [/update]

a
piece of "good fun" again from 'Mongoloid',
skitting http://www.theatlanticbridge.com